Several years ago a story circulated about a hospital where something strange began happening.Patients were dying in the emergency room waiting area.Not because the doctors didn’t have the medicine.Not because the hospital lacked the equipment.Not because the surgeons weren’t trained.They were dying because no one was bringing them inside.The hospital was full of doctors.The medicine cabinets were stocked.The operating rooms were ready.But people were sitting in the parking lot… hurting… suffering… dying… because no one was going out to bring them in.Finally someone asked the question that should have been obvious:“What good is a hospital full of doctors if no one goes out to get the dying?”And church, I couldn’t help but think…How close does that sound to the modern church today? ⛪

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We stand week after week.

We have our call to worship.

We pray and ask God to let us take the message and apply it to our daily lives.

But here’s the honest truth:

We often get so busy that by Monday…

we forget what the message was even about.

And sometimes we say things like.

“Well, if the preacher was a little better, maybe I’d remember.”

But Proverbs doesn’t put the responsibility on the preacher.

It puts it on the heart.

And that’s where Jeremiah helps us understand why.

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Years have come and gone. Seasons have changed. Storms have risen and fallen. And through the years we’ve sung the words:

“It is well… it is well… with my soul.”

But let me remind you — that song was not written in comfort.

It was not written in abundance.

It was not written when everything was going right.

It was written in agony.

It was written in sorrow.

It was written after devastating loss.

And yet the writer could still declare, “It is well with my soul.”So today I have to ask you — not your neighbor, not your spouse, not the person across the aisle — but you: Is it truly well with your soul?

We live in a world that understands connection.

When the signal is strong, everything flows.

When the signal is weak, frustration rises.

Some of us treat our relationship with God like bad cell service — in and out.

One day strong.

Next day silent.

One Sunday lifted.

By Wednesday disconnected.

But hear me:

Our connection to Jesus is not a Sunday morning routine.

It is not a weekly recharge station.

It is not a religious habit.

It is life.

Deuteronomy 10:20 says, “You shall fear the Lord your God… serve Him… and to Him you shall hold fast.”

That phrase “hold fast” means to cling to, to stick to, to remain glued to.

Not visit Him.

Not occasionally acknowledge Him.

But cling to Him.

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